Iodine status varies across Canada, raising deficiency risk in some regions - Brighter World

Roughly one billion people around the world are iodine deficient and it is the leading preventable cause of irreversible cognitive impairment in children.

Philip Britz-McKibbin is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at McMaster University. He is the lead author of a new study showing a surprising regional variation in iodine… [+4365 chars]

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